Inaccurate Animal Testing

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Medical testing on animals should be illegal
Did you know that the shampoo you use was probably forced down the throat of a rabbit, cat, or maybe even a dog? Medical testing on animals should be illegal, there are other methods than testing on animals, it is inaccurate and, it is very expensive.
There are other methods than testing on animals. Scientists can take cells from the human body to test. Researchers at the European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing developed five different tests that use human blood cells to detect contaminants in drugs that cause a potentially dangerous fever response when they enter the body. Scientists can also take tissue to test. A variety of cell-based tests and tissue models can be used to assess the safety of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and consumer products. They can use computer modeling techniques.Computer models and simulations, virtual human organs, metabolism programs, and other computer- and math-based approaches to studying the human
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Many animals are allergic to things most humans aren't.The most common allergies to, dogs, are beef, dairy, wheat, egg, chicken, lamb, soy, pork, rabbit, and fish. 92 percent of drugs in medical trials on animals fail to be approved. This failure rate has increased from 86 percent in 1985. Animals could show different reactions to medicine, beauty products, or, soap.A dog’s skin may react to insecticides or anti-flea chemicals in specialty shampoos.Rats are allergic to beans, raw or fried, blue cheese, caffeine, citrus peels dried corn insects.It's rare, but dogs can be allergic to cat dander and people dander and vice versa.more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics